United States v. Charles Andrew Fowler

CARNES, Chief Judge:

From time immemorial, human societies “have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.” 1 Because of a murder Charles Fowler committed in a cemetery, he has been sentenced to life in prison. He will stay in prison until his mortal remains are taken to a cemetery, unless his life sentence is reduced to ten years, as he contends that it should be. That is what this appeal is about.

For murdering a police officer in a Florida cemetery, Fowler was convicted…